AROUND CITY HALL brenner, of the Yankees, for offenses un- related to race), "It sends out a message- that we're still living in a captivity world where blacks are treated no better than twenty or thirty years ago." Most of the baseball figures who uttered cries of out- rage and alarm in 1947 when Branch Rickey, the general manager and part owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, brought in Jackie Robinson as the first black player in the major leagues in the twenti- eth century would probably not be sur- prised that nowadays as many as a third of the members of a team running onto a diamond (and a much hIgher percentage of football and basketball teams) may be black. After all, in 1947 major-league scouts, having been dispatched almost like emissaries to foreign countries, must have reported that Satchel Paige and other stars of the black leagues were for- midable performers, whose younger rela- tives could be counted on to move onto the scene fast if given a chance-al- though the old-timers may not have been familiar with Satchel's advice "Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." What Americans stuck in a late- nineteen-forties time warp might well find surprIsIng about the judgment against Schott is the reminder that multicultural-sensitivity-training pro- grams are now treated as a business ex- pense by large corporations, government agencies, and, as it turns out, major- league-baseball councils, to encourage people to respect those whose color, ethnic heritage, or religion is different from their own (respect them in pub- lic, at least; perhaps Ms. Schott can be trained to keep the Nazi armband out of sight), and that such programs consti- tute a thriving industry, which, only a few years back, their clients could not have imagined. Multiculturalism is, of course, well thought of in Washington these days: " " th PAGEANT OF DIVERSITY was e lront- page Times headline describing the Inau- guration. The White House, which is said to be considering possible successors to William Sessions, the F.B.I. chief, may be pleased to learn that James Fox is part Native American At the Demo- cratic Convention last summer, Harlem- born Ron Brown, now Clinton's Secre- tary of Commerce, announced that the Party was meeting here because it wanted 65 to send a message that it "cares about di- versity-and no city represents diversity more than New York City." Several times a day, Dinkins calls the city, which used to be described as "the melting pot," "a gorgeous mosaic." Naturally, the Mayor now sees this diversity as a credential that should boost the city's standing at the White House, where, as he keeps saying, it now has a friend. The day after Clin- ton's economic plan was released, Brook- lyn Representative Charles Schumer an- nounced that this was indeed the case. Under the plan, In the next two years the city would get more than half a billion dollars in new federal money. "This is the first budget in twelve years that is actually pro-New York City," Schumer said, with a big smile. When the appropriations reach the Senate, the city will have a really powerful friend there to help ease the passage of legislation favorable to it. The Police De- partment isn't the only place where the Irish are resurgent. When the state's senior senator, Daniel Patrick Moyni- han, arrived in the Senate, in 1977, he did not follow the custom of New York leg- islators, who often opted for seats on THE INSIGHT OF RODRIGO. ...;-." ' THE PASSION OF PARKENING. ..., ::.: '\" THE COLLABORATION OF A LIFETIME. And the result is pure magic. The piece is called the ConClerto de Aranjuez. And for one "hining r.;ession in Abbey Road studios, history wa made. As original composer and musical luminary, Joaquin Rodrigo met with renowned classical guitar virtuoso, Christopher Parkening in ( ISTOP [D PAD K [ N I N G RODRIGO Concierto de Aral1Juez WALTON Five Bagatelles for Guitar and Orchestra ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA ANDREW LITfON b -- "" ': ..: .=:::.......... --1 of'" "" .. . \ · " ,"'f'- · "I v ",.. .,. ., .:; ., ' , . ". "v. .\<tJ. ....."\ .; J< .:. . ,.,r " . .,J '\. . .. . ,';. ... , , . * . ,\".' . 4' <.' : )': "'" i . ... .. i. .. .. ,...;: . ...;:::: ... ? ..' .tf.. f '.': '. ' .' . , .:.. .,. ..:'" . . . ". an effort to ensure the music's purity. They discussed interpreta- tion and corrected questionable notes that had crept into the published scores over time. And what came out of this collahora- tion i a piece of music so inspiring that it has been said it has the power to ease one's soul into profound introspection. It's easy to see why it's the definitive recording of the Concierto de AranJuez and 'AThy Joaquin Rodrigo calls EM I Parkening's interpretation "magnificent. " C LAS SIC S The Conclerto de AranJuez is perfectly complemented With the world premier recordIng of Walton's ElVe Ba8atelles for Guitar and Orchestra Call 1-800-222-6872 to order